Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

A Brilliant Conflict

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Roy Clarke had a chance here to write another winner, unfortunately he chose to simply re-hash the original. What was needed was a completely new approach. How about Granville inheriting a fortune from his mysterious father who actually was a Hungarian count, and starting a string of supermarkets and finding himself up against Arkwrights son by Nurse Gladys , who has inherited the corner shop. This series is a very pale copy of the brilliant original.

I don't know why some of you think this is insulting! Although it's a spin off from the original you have to see it as an entity all its own. David keeps Ronnie's character alive with the great photo and periodic stammer. A lot of the original cast is back joined by many fantastic newcomers. To you naysayers I say nay! This is an excellent show with many funny and warm moments. The old hand eating cash register is still having a go at Granville and the bosomy nurse Gladys still pays a visit. What more do you need?! The British have always been the masters of situation comedy and this is apparent in this show. Don't let the comments steer you away. This show is definitely worth watching. Great job!

Couldn't get past the first minute. Laugh-trac made it unwatchable. Perhaps it's just me, but I find canned laughter most off-putting. Why do I need ten lines to post my review? This is silly. I've said all that needs to be said. So I'll repeat myself, in stronger language. Any show that needs to rely on canned laughter needs to rethink itself. If the show needs to tell me when to laugh, i.e, where the jokes are, then the writing needs to be re-done. Guess I'm still not up to ten lines, so I'll state again. I can't tell you -- without lapsing into profanity -- how incredibly insulting I find ANY SHOW that must rely on laugh tracks. To my way of thinking, show that rely on laugh tracks are simply moronic.

Roy Clarke has been one of the mainstays of British comedy writing for over four decades now. Hits such as LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE, OPEN ALL HOURS and KEEPING UP APPEARANCES have kept him at the top of the scriptwriting tree.However there comes a point when all writers are written out; in other words, their comic style is either obsolete or their work is just not funny any more. Sadly this is what has happened with STILL OPEN ALL HOURS, an update of the much-loved Eighties comedy with Granville (David Jason) now in the Ronnie Barker role and James Baxter taking the part of the ingénue enjoying far greater success with women than the younger Granville ever did.Corner shops like Arkwright's simply don't exist anymore; they have either been swallowed up by supermarkets or superseded by chain-store subsidiaries like Tesco Midi or Sainsbury's Local. The idea of middle-aged homemakers shopping on behalf of their spouses is redolent of the Fifties rather than the Nineties: people are far more likely to take their cars out and do a regular weekly shop rather than pop down to the local store for half a kilo of bacon and a packet of tea. Perhaps more obviously, the stereotype of the northern town whose citizens all speak broad Yorksher accents - and who are mostly white - is equally outmoded; in an industrial area where Arkwright's is (presumably) located, the population is likely to be far more multicultural, speaking in a variety of Englishes.What we have in this one-off episode is a cameo-laden cast delivering a succession of weak and mildly bawdy jokes, in the pronounced vocal style characteristic of Seventies sitcoms. Lynda Baron and Stephanie Cole return to their roles from the original series, complemented by Johnny Vegas, Mark Williams and Brigit Forsyth (fondly remembered by viewers of a certain age as Thelma in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS?). There is a certain air of desperation throughout as the actors strive for laughs, aided and abetted by a studio audience which seems ready to respond to anything, whether unfunny or not.History shows that most remakes, updates or reworkings of much-loved comedies seldom work (remember Paul Merton performing Hancock, or IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, a modern update of TILL DEATH US DO PART). STILL OPEN ALL HOURS sadly underlines the truth of this statement.